Footage excluding CGI Search Option?

Is it possible to search for only footage leaving out all computer generated images? I use pond5 regularly as one of my libraries for commercial stock footage research but lately I've been refusing to waste time digging through 4000 results per search term when 70% of them page after page are computer generated images and not actual footage.

If there is a search restriction option I would love to know about it. If not, I would really appreciate it's implementation.

You can reject clips from the search results if they contain keywords typical to computer graphics. For example, if you are looking for clips where the subject is 2012, you can reject keywords by placing an ! before them. These are the steps:

1. Sort the files by "number of sales". This is because of some bug in the Pond5 system.

2. For searching the word 2012, place the following search term:

2012 !animation !backgrounds !design !looping !after !effects !abstract !CGI

By eliminating the keywords, you have rejected about one half of the clips. Once Pond5 fixed the bug, you can "sort by price" descending. This will also help, because CGI clips are much cheaper.

A useful tip. Until now I've only been excluding prolific CGI artists by name. The idea of a blanket copy/paste macro to remove nearly all unwanted material is nice.

Thanks for the idea

You're welcome.

Great suggestion, a buyer should not have to know all the different "secret" search codes to eliminate CG or other products that they are not interested. Somehow CG and animations have been lumped in with actual video footage ... I agree with stalkr5 that video footage should be searchable without other "stuff" being mixed in.

P5, what do ya think, a separate search category for video footage versus CG / animations? This would greatly help buyers get to what they are looking for with less frustration.

Since when keywording footage there is a choice for either "camera" or "CG / animation" this should a guide to also allow buyers to search each one separately. Since this block is used a buyer should be able to select only camera generated footage if that is all they are looking for. Artists are required to select one or the other so it must be important?